excommunicates
Bars from church
Excommunicates is the verb form of excommunicate—to formally expel someone from a religious community, particularly the Catholic Church.
The excommunicated person is cut off from sacraments and fellowship: The pope excommunicated the king for defying church authority.
By extension, to excommunicate can mean to exclude someone decisively from any group or circle.
Expels from a place
- expelsRemoves by force
- oustsForcibly removes from position
- excludesDeliberately leaves out
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
removes · ejects · defrocks · strips · severs · dismisses · purges · disbars
Intensely detested thing
- papalof the pontiff
- bishopDiocesan clergy head
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
schism · interdict · absolution · penance · sacraments · confession · diocese · Vatican
Deliberately avoids contact
- rejectsRefuses or discards
- alienatesCauses emotional withdrawal
- isolatesKeeps separate from others
- marginalizesRelegates to insignificance
disowns · repudiates · cold-shoulders · snubs · blackballs · boycotts · outcast · pariah
Church tribunal against heretics
- LutherProtestant Reformation initiator
- SpinozaDutch philosopher of monism
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
schismatic · Borgia · medieval · edict · pronouncement · Catholic · Protestant · dissident
banishes
Expels from a place
bars · removes · ejects · defrocks · strips · severs · dismisses · purges · disbars · blacklists
anathema
Intensely detested thing
apostasy · schism · interdict · absolution · penance · sacraments · confession · diocese · Vatican · synod
shuns
Deliberately avoids contact
marginalizes · disowns · repudiates · cold-shoulders · snubs · blackballs · boycotts · outcast · pariah · spurns
Inquisition
Church tribunal against heretics
- LutherProtestant Reformation initiator
- SpinozaDutch philosopher of monism
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
reformation · schismatic · Borgia · medieval · edict · pronouncement · Catholic · Protestant · dissident · reformer
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
excommunicatesadmits
Allows entrance or confesses
reinstates · readmits · welcomes · baptizes · confirms
excommunicatesincludes
Contains as component
initiates · incorporates · inducts · welcomes · communicates
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